College Option for Weissman Students (BA Degree)

There are three versions of the College Option for students receiving the BA degree from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences:

Students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways in fall 2013;
Students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways from spring – fall 2014; and
Students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways starting spring 2015.

For all three versions, the following table explains the College Option (COPT) requirements for students.

Baruch Freshmen	12 College Option (COPT) Credits
Students transferring from an Associate Degree program to Baruch (including non-CUNY regionally accredited colleges)	Earned Associate Degree: 6 COPT credits Earned more than 30 credits: 9 COPT credits Earned 30 or fewer credits: 12 COPT credits
Students transferring from a CUNY bachelor degree program to Baruch	12 COPT credits are required COPT credits completed at and/or received upon transfer to the previous CUNY senior college will transfer to Baruch with the designation Students who have remaining COPT requirements begin taking courses at the top of the relevant Baruch COPT course list
Students transferring from a non-CUNY bachelor degree program to Baruch	12 COPT credits
Second bachelor degree students with earned bachelor’s degrees from institutions that are accredited and recognized by a U.S. regional accrediting agency and students from international universities with degrees that are equivalent to a baccalaureate degree as determined by CUNY	No COPT credits are required
Students who transfer multiple times and began first in an associate degree program	6, 9, or 12 COPT credits depending on the student’s status when they first transferred from the associate program
Students who transfer multiple times and began first in a baccalaureate degree program	12 COPT credits are required COPT credits completed at and/or received upon transfer to the previous CUNY senior college will transfer to Baruch with the designation Students who have remaining COPT requirements begin taking courses at the top of the relevant Baruch COPT course list

I. For students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways in fall 2013, please follow the four courses below (all three-credit) of the Weissman School College Option:

Course 1	ENG/CMP 2800, or ENG/CMP 2850	Great Works of Literature I, or Great Works of Literature II
Course 2	COM 1010	Speech Communication
Course 3		1st Foreign Language course (based on placement)*
Course 4		2nd Foreign Language course (the same language as the 1st Foreign Language course)*

*One of these courses must be completed at Baruch.

II. For students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways from spring-fall 2014, please follow the four courses below (all three-credit) of the Weissman School College Option:

Course 1	ENG/CMP 2800, or ENG/CMP 2850	Great Works of Literature I, or Great Works of Literature II
Course 2		1st Foreign Language course (based on placement)*
Course 3		2nd Foreign Language course (the same language as the 1st Foreign Language course)*
Course 4	COM 1010	Speech Communication

*One of these courses must be completed at Baruch.

III. For students entering Baruch or opting into Pathways starting spring 2015, please follow the four courses below (all three-credit) of the Baruch College Option:

Course 1	ENG/CMP 2800, or ENG/CMP 2850	Great Works of Literature I, or Great Works of Literature II
Course 2		4000-level CIC capstone course for one of the liberal arts minors of courses 3 and 4 (directly below) This course must be completed at Baruch
Course 3		1st 3000-level liberal arts course toward the same liberal arts minor
Course 4		2nd 3000-level liberal arts course toward the same liberal arts minor

Notes:

The liberal arts minor cannot be within the same area of study as the major. This is also true for students who are required to complete part of the minor for the College Option.
There is no GPA stipulation attached to the College Option courses, but in order to graduate with the liberal arts minor on the final transcript, a student must have a grade point average of at least 2.00 in the three courses that make up his or her liberal arts minor.
Please click here for the full list of liberal arts minors and capstone courses.